Re-Flash Firmware

[NDS_RIPPER]

Is it possable it re-flash or upgate to original firmware, I have Flashme Installed.

If so, what effects will it have on the DS?   I know that you lose the fail-safe feature, but you don't have that on the original firmware anyway.
I'm not going to be using homebrew anymore.

I want to be able to still use my warranty.  They won't know, will they?

[bruceg]

yes, if you use the 'uninstall' file from the flashme site, that should put everything back to normal condition, I would think (I haven't done it personally, though, so you can wait for someone else to post for verification purposes).

Flashme is more fail-safe than the original firmware because of it's bios recovery feature.  Only part of the firmware is protected, so dangerous programs like ds bricker can ruin your original firmware.

But you mentioned you're not using homebrew anymore, so you will probably be ok anyways.

BruceG

[cory1492]

noflashme will put the firmware that you origionally had onto your DS (along with keeping the hardware info like MAC address intact) and there will be no way other than the warranty sticker under the battery compartment to tell that your DS had been modified. Even doing a firmware dump and looking very closely at it, there is nothing left over when you use noflashme.

Just be warned, often when you submit something to bigN for warranty work, they send you back a different machine entirely wrather than fixing the one you sent in (it saves on backlog to not wait to fix the machine that is sent in before sending out the replacement, thus you get something back very quickly)

[NDS_RIPPER]

Thanks for your replies,

When you use the uninstall, does it restore the original firmware from a backup on the flash?

Doesn't Flashme overwrite some of flash firmware.

[bruceg]

I presume noflashme contains the original ds firmware, since the current backup copy on your ds re-installs flashme in case you need to recover the firmware

BruceG

[NDS_RIPPER]

How would I go about dumping my firmware or maybe a firmware browser. 

Just to see where the backup is.

[cory1492]

there is 5 currently known versions of the DS firmware. At least 4 of them are contained in the noflashme software (I think the chinese iQue one is not in there).

When you use flashme, it stores some basic info (probably just a single byte number) out of the way so flashme can "remember" which version you started off with. When you run noflashme, it puts the origional firmware back in from the known versions, and keeps your personal info and similar stuff (like the MAC ID code) intact - ie: it only overwrites the actual code wrather than the settings.

There is a firmware explorer out there, and I think it even decompresses the firmware so you may browse it, but it will not show you a stored/compressed origional firmware since that is not stored in your DS at all.